Are you among the many few who totally is aware of the millet’’s well being advantages however can not stop rice? Here’s a bit of excellent information. You can eat millets that appear to be rice — questioning how that’s attainable? No, it’s not a genetic modification of the millet germplasm.

Researchers on the Indian Institute of Millet Research (ICAR-IIMR) have developed a course of and related applied sciences to make rice ‘millets’.

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“It is reconstitution of millets. We make millet powder and convert that into ‘rice’. There are a lot of benefits to this. While roping in rice lovers to eat millets, this method helps in fortification of millets with add-ons like energy and fiber,”  B. Dayakar Rao, CEO of Nutrihub, which the IIMR set to advertise millet applied sciences and switch the identical to entrepreneurs, informed businessline.

“There are some issues with shelf life. At present, they can last for six months. We are trying to increase it further,” he stated.

To begin with, the institute has developed processes and applied sciences to make ‘millet rice’ from kodo millets.

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“Though we have experimented with kodo millets, the same method can be applied to produce rice from other millets. This is going to be a game changer as this will help winning over the rice lovers,” he stated.

Since millets are processed and transformed into rice, the time-to-cook will come down by 20 per cent.

Meanwhile, interacting with ladies entrepreneurs of the FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO), who had been on a subject go to to IIMR right here on Saturday, he stated that India was the most important producer of millets on this planet, with 19 per cent of the world underneath millets and 20 per cent of the worldwide manufacturing. 

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Nutrihub has incubated 400 millet-based startups within the final 5 years, with 100 presently being incubated at its centre at Rajendranagar.

“At present we are only eating calories. We need to eat more nutritious food. With millets, we are moving from food security to nutrition security,” stated Tara Satyavathi, Director of ICAR-IIMR.